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Quotes About Danger

The great democratic danger is enslavement to public opinion
~ Tocqueville
Imaginary enjoyment seems to occur in open disdain of symbolic authority, thumbing its nose at that authority. But symbolic authority depends on this imaginary enjoyment that would "subvert" it because this enjoyment renders subjects docile. For symbolic authority, the danger of the imaginary is only an imaginary danger.
~ Todd McGowan
And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ammunition, in search of a vicious gang of mohawked marauders who were 100 percent bad news and totally had to be dealth with. Trust Daddy on this one.
~ Tom Bissell
One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.
~ Tom Clancy
At this table, a loud voice was just a man venting his stress. A quiet one was far more dangerous.
~ Tom Clancy
Hitting an airliner was like having a shoot-out in a grammar school, just more crowded.
~ Tom Clancy
not a very nice place is it? rosen asked as they came back for the last load. they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous. and the other one? kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. that one eats your ass whole.
~ Tom Clancy
preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger; that danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
~ Tom Clancy
midnight kill. "Next, we have to see
~ Tom Clancy
attack was coming. The
~ Tom Clancy
This wasn't a mere can of worms. It was a can of poisonous snakes that Ryan had spilled over Murray's desk.
~ Tom Clancy
and friendly fire would hurt just as bad as enemy fire.
~ Tom Clancy
A REALLY BIG FOOKING WHOLE COMING RIGHT UP
~ Tom Clancy
I had an empty heart and wish someone had told me about Jesus years ago. That's why I tell everyone about Him now. My life is in danger, but I don't care. I only want to follow my Savior and be faithful. That is my goal in life.
~ Tom Doyle
The fall of the short-lived Weimar Republic, and the subsequent rise of Nazi power, tells us that there is a danger to whittling down the power of our institutions when we cannot yet foresee what will replace them.
~ Tom Head
It's like the Stone Age over there, just sand and rubble and IEDs.
~ Tom Perrotta
to perform without a net is ecstasy. Papa Phom had often reminded her, To perform without focus is fatal.
~ Tom Robbins
Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation.
~ Tom Robbins
That princess cannot expect a happy ending who has been rescued by the dragon.
~ Tom Robbins
Do not dabble in paradox, Edward, it puts you in danger of fortuitous wit.
~ Tom Stoppard
The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one's racial-ized rank is to lose one's own valued and enshrined difference.
~ Toni Morrison
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
~ Toni Morrison
Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
~ Toni Morrison
Fondling their weapons, feeling suddenly so young and good they are reminded that guns are more than decoration, intimidation or comfort. They are meant.
~ Toni Morrison